GISPA: Collective Creation within a Unique Program

We're Different! The Gulf Islands School of Performing Arts offers advanced education in Music, Dance and Theatre for students in grades 9-12. A student enrolled in GISPA receives ongoing, comprehensive training, master classes and workshops with visiting professionals, performance opportunities in various showcases and main-stage productions, as well as attending several professional productions and performances in Victoria & Vancouver.

Collective Creation: GISPA students are given a unique opportunity. Together, we work on creating an original collective project between all three of our strands: Acting, Music and Dance. This means that our students work together, creating original music, choreography and scene-work geared towards a final year-end production. Collective creation aims to blend all of our strengths into a sleek, powerful performance through which our innovation and skill can shine.

Join us! Situated on the beautiful Salt Spring Island, The Gulf Islands School for Performing Arts is part of an island community with unceasing support for the arts. GISPA is a school within Gulf Islands Secondary School, a small, highly regarded high school renowned for its commitment to its students. GISPA proudly functions in a community so dedicated to theatre and performance.

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GISPA is currently accepting applications for the 2018-2019 school year.
Please check the Audition Page for more information.

How to Audition for GISPA

Pinocchio (2016)

Adapted from Carlo Collodi’s story of the same name, Pinocchio upholds GISPA’s signature fusion of music, dance, and theatre with a truthful telling of the once very ‘disneyfied’ tale.

Music

GISPA Music fluidly develops both theoretical and performance-based music skill with a major focus on composition and song writing. Workshops with world class musicians are a frequent affair through skype and on site sessions.[more...]

Dance

Emphasizing the balance between technical training in Ballet and Modern dance and artistry, GISPA Dancers develop their unique creative choreographic voice, enabling them to work with dance as a true artistic medium. [more...]

Theatre

An ensemble-based strand, GISPA Theatre focuses on embracing the absurd and enhancing the realistic. Students receive professional training in many areas of stage acting, including physical theatre and clowning. With emphasis on devising and design, this strand is highly collaborative. [more...]